Jesse Winchester Finds Peace on ‘All That We Have Is Now’ (Exclusive Song Premiere)

By

Eric R. Danton

Aug 5, 2014 12:00 pm ET

Jesse Winchester hung on long enough to record one last album. The veteran singer and songwriter completed “A Reasonable Amount of Trouble” earlier this year, before he died of cancer in April. Speakeasy today premieres “All That We Have Is Now,” the first song to be released from the album.

It’s a quietly effervescent tune that features Winchester singing in low tones over brushed drums, bright acoustic guitar and dusky backing vocals. His optimistic lyrics take on a wistful cast in light of his circumstances: after undergoing treatment in 2011 for esophageal cancer, doctors pronounced Winchester cancer-free and he began working on “A Reasonable Amount of Trouble.” He learned in February that his cancer had returned, this time in his bladder, and was untreatable. He was 69 when he died two months later.

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